Congress upset over demonetisation as it lost black money: BJP

NEW DELHI: Questioning Congress's protests coinciding with the second anniversary of demonetisation, BJP on Friday said the opposition party is upset for having lost black money it had accumulated under four generations of the Gandhi-Nehru family's leadership.

"Demonetisation destroyed the ill-gotten wealth of the four generations of the Gandhi family," BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra told a press conference, claiming that the move, which had made notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 invalid, led to many benefits, including increase in tax base, curbing black money and hitting naxalism and terrorism.

He said a war is going on in Indian politics with the Narendra Modi-led government working to curb black money while the Congress president is trying to save it. "(Rahul) Gandhi's comments were nothing but a pack of lies and that he has been speaking from the same script for long. India has been progressing under Modi while the Gandhi family has been left behind," Patra said.

This was in response to the Congress chief 's remark that demonetisation was a planned "brutal conspiracy" and a "shrewd scheme" to convert the black money of PM's "suited-booted friends".